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After months of teasing we finally get a look at Mission Motors second iteration of an electric race bike, the Mission R. It was worth the wait. The bike is stunning and packs some serious power in a package smaller than a 600cc gasser. The 14.4 kWh battery pack has 1.9 kWh more capacity than […]

Mission Motors was granted $505,381 for development of the Mission Electric Vehicle Technology (Mission EVT) by the California Energy Commission. The announcement reveals that Mission will build a downtown SanFrancisco facility able to crank out 30,000 EVT’s per year and employ 100 locals. From the California Energy Commission news release: Electric vehicles components – $505,381 […]

Mission Motors quietly announced on their website plans to race the 2011 season but they have not named events or a specific electric race series. They also show the silhouette of the new Mission R. There are no details of the bike beyond the picture and we are left wondering if the bike will use […]

The speed at which teams prepared electric race motorcycles for the 2009 TTXGP brought great hope that electric motorcycles could be taken from design to showroom with lightning speed. It turns out it’s not quite that easy. The intricacies of making an electric motorcycle refined, reliable and legal takes a lot longer than the 6 months some […]

Toyota has nothing to do with this article really, but remember the 1980′s Toyota commercials? No? OK, never mind the photo. Last month rumors were flying about Zongshen PEM president Zou Zongshen traveling to the United States to meet billionaire investment legend Warren Buffett. Buffett has a 10% stake in Chinese Automotive manufacturer BYD and it was […]

Have a sugar mama who can’t seem to spend enough money on you and loves to tell people where she bought stuff? Good, Mission Motors has you covered with the Neiman Marcus edition Mission One. Just pick up the years 2009 Christmas Book’s Fantasy Gift List, ear mark the page 54, (the one with the […]

Last week I wrote about a video I found showing the Mission one speed runs at the Bonneville Salt Flats during Bub week. Now Mission has made it official with a press release and a nice short video documenting the run. As suspected, the speed run by Mission Motors Product Manager and Test Rider Jeremy […]

It appears Mission Motors was in Utah doing speed runs at the Bonneville Salt flats in August. Two videos of the Mission One at Bonneville in it’s TTXGP race fairing wearing the number 1117 were posted on YouTube with the text “electric motorcycle 160 mph”. A 160 mph recorded speed would be nice to back […]